I wanted to love The Bride! but it was too much of a monster mash

I wanted to love The Bride! but it was too much of a monster mash

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The Bride!: Or, the Postmodern Monster Mash

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is a “there are two wolves inside you” situation. One wolf likes classic literature. One wolf craves punkish anarchy. These sides are in strict opposition, a nervous tension that never gets shaken out over the course of the careening couple hour runtime, which introduces a metric ton of ideas, and does very little with most of them. Maximalist design is not an inherent flaw. Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a monster love s…

Movie about Frankenstein’s monster making a Frankenstein’s monster is itself a Frankenstein’s monster: Discuss

“A lumbering assortment of various parts poorly stitched together and bursting at the seams” is an apt description of both Frankenstein’s monster and writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s very loose remake of The Bride of Frankenstein. If the mere inclusion of the splashy, self-aggrandizing exclamation point in the film’s title, The Bride!, grates on you, save yourself a few hours and skip this one. Even the film’s staunchest defenders would descr…